YOUR STARTER FOR TEN
1. Who received the Booker Prize in 2021?
2. An epithalamium is a poem or a music written in honour of what?
3. The phrase ‘theist’ has an easy that means, as one who holds a basic kinship with God. And but, within the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), it has a second that means, used of himself by Percy Bysshe Shelley, as somebody who has a selected love for which beverage?
4. Which American creator of science fiction and fantasy tales arrange the Church of Scientology? When he died, aged 74, in 1986, leaders of his church introduced ‘his physique had grow to be an obstacle to his work and that he had determined to “drop his physique” to proceed his analysis on one other airplane of existence’.
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5. Which prolific novelist owns the penthouse flat at Atlantic Home, on the south financial institution of the river Thames, reverse Westminster? For those who ask instructions to the toilet, he says, ‘Previous the Picasso and left on the Matisse’.
6. Which Canadian creator’s copyrights are within the title of ‘O. W. Toad’?
7. Which former Conservative minister named his 2016 autobiography Type Of Blue, after Miles Davis’s 1959 report?
8. Which world-famous character from kids’s literature had a pet cat referred to as Dinah?
9. By which jail did Oscar Wilde serve most of his jail sentence, between 1895 and 1897?
10. A person referred to as Alexander Selkirk, who was born in Fife in 1676 and died in 1721 of yellow fever whereas on board HMS Weymouth, lived on as the premise of which well-known fictional character, created in 1719?
PICTURE ROUND: Establish the next authors. There’s a connection between their names…
ME, MYSELF AND I
TheSe autobiographies are presently on sale within the nation’s bookshops. So who wrote them?
1. Associates, Lovers And The Huge Horrible Factor.
2. The Gentle We Carry.
3. Give up: 40 Songs, One Story.
4. A Pocketful Of Happiness.
5. It’s Not A Correct Job.
6. Diddly Squat: A Yr On The Farm.
7. A Coronary heart That Works.
8. Prepared For Completely Nothing.
9. Madly, Deeply.
10. Menopausing.
ANNIVERSARIES
1. Which English poet, scholar, soldier and cleric was born on January 22, 1572? He lived in poverty for a lot of his youth, fathered 12 kids and, on the age of 49, grew to become Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral, a publish he held for the remainder of his life.
2. Which French playwright, actor and poet was born in early January 1622 beneath the title Jean-Baptiste Poquelin? ‘Anybody could also be an honourable man, and but write verse badly,’ he as soon as wrote, not with out knowledge.
3. Which Daniel Defoe novel was printed in 1722, though it was initially printed anonymously, and never attributed to Defoe till 40 years after his loss of life? The lead character was performed in a 1996 TV adaptation by Alex Kingston.
4. Which romantic poet, who by reputation had a remarkably small head, died in a crusing accident on July 8, 1822, aged simply 29? ‘The pleasure that’s sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of enjoyment itself,’ he as soon as wrote, which appears to me simply utterly fallacious.
5. Which nice English novel, subtitled A Examine Of Provincial Life, was printed in guide kind in 1871? Virginia Woolf stated it was ‘one of many few English novels written for grown-up folks’.
6. Which American creator (and dentist), author of many Western tales, was born in Ohio on January 31, 1872? His best-selling guide was Riders Of The Purple Sage, and 112 movies have been constructed from his work.
7. Which perennially gloomy English poet, who thought that ‘Books are a load of crap’, was born on August 9, 1922? Eric Homberger referred to as him ‘the saddest coronary heart within the post-war grocery store’, and the person himself stated that deprivation was for him what ‘daffodils had been for Wordsworth’.
8. Which French author and serial navel-gazer, who died on November 18, 1922, as soon as ascribed a very productive writing interval to the consequences of consuming a cake dunked in tea, a beverage he seldom drank?
9. Which guide, which Richard Adams advised to his daughters Juliet and Rosamond on lengthy automobile journeys, ‘improvising off the highest of my head’, was printed in November 1972 after being rejected by a number of publishers and went on to win the Carnegie Medal and different literary prizes?
10. Whose first novel, written primarily in Edinburgh espresso retailers as a result of they had been hotter than her flat, was printed to virtually on the spot acclaim and, later, unimaginable riches in 1997?
LITERARY PSEUDONYMS
Who wrote books beneath the next pen-names?
1. Richard Bachman.
2. Ellis Bell.
3. Clive Hamilton & N. W. Clerk.
4. Mary Westmacott.
5. Snowqueens Icedragon.
6. Victoria Lucas.
7. Flora Fairfield and A.M. Barnard.
8. Paul French.
9. C. J. Carey.
10. Anne Rampling and A.N. Roquelaure.
PLACE TO PLACE
Who wrote the next novels, books or performs?
1. Continent (1986).
2. A Month In The Nation (1980).
3. In The Nation Of Final Issues (1987).
4. Tales Of The Metropolis (1978).
5. Intercourse And The Metropolis (1996).
6. The Spoilt Metropolis (1962).
7. A City Like Alice (1950).
8. A Small City In Germany (1968).
9. Village Faculty (1955).
10. Hamlet (1601).
FROM THE PAGES OF THE DAILY MAIL . . .
1. ‘Our baby star has instantly developed a sublime bosom and grow to be a fully-formed woman,’ stated studio boss Louis B. Mayer about which Hollywood star, a guide of images of whom was reviewed by Roger Lewis in January.
(a) Judy Garland.
(b) Elizabeth Taylor.
(c) Shirley Temple.
2. ‘How I hate being king,’ stated which Twentieth-century monarch, in keeping with Barry Turner’s Thorns In The Crown, loved by Nick Rennison in January?
(a) George V.
(b) George VI.
(c) Edward VIII.
3. The American cockroach can survive how lengthy after being beheaded, in keeping with a guide reviewed by Mark Mason in January?
(a) An hour.
(b) 24 hours.
(c) Two weeks.
4. What’s the highest poison, measured by the variety of prison instances within the UK? As revealed in a guide we checked out in January.
(a) Arsenic.
(b) Cyanide.
(c) Strychnine.
5. Justin Webb’s memoir The Present Of A Radio was loved by Dominic Lawson in February. Which BBC newsreader was Webb’s organic father?
(a) Reginald Bosanquet.
(b) Richard Baker.
(c) Peter Woods.
6. The Swedish Buddhist monk Björn Natthiko Lindeblad printed a contemplative memoir in February. What was it referred to as?
(a) I Could Be Improper.
(b) I Could Be Proper.
(c) Am All the time Proper.
7. Constance Craig Smith relished Magnificent Girls And Flying Machines in February. The primary lady to fly in a balloon was Leticia Sage in 1785. What was her day-job?
(a) Journalist.
(b) Trapeze artist.
(c) Actress.
8. Whose collected tales did Lisa Taddeo say she would take to a desert island in March?
(a) Alice Munro.
(b) William Trevor.
(c) John Cheever.
9. The antecedents of comedian novelist Howard Jacobson, in keeping with a memoir reviewed in March, initially come from the place?
(a) Poland.
(b) Russia.
(c) Ukraine.
10. In keeping with From Energy To Energy, about ageing reviewed in March, medical doctors attain their mental peak at what age?
(a) Their 30s.
(b) Their 40s.
(c) Their 50s.
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